Getting Them Young…

Ahhhh, look at the little future agents of the state! Don’t they look cute!

Ten pupils, aged nine to 11, from each school have signed up to help police their schools and streets along with regular PCSOs from their local police stations. The children spend an hour each week with officers, going out on patrol and helping to spot issues and areas of concern in their areas.

Is that ‘one hour a week’ part of the school time, perchance?

They are also holding antibullying surgeries in their schools and helping to foster a good relationshipbetween pupils and the police.The scheme has been set up by PCSO Lisa Charmwell from Wednesbury police station who…said: “The aim of the scheme is for the children to become aware of issues around them and to take ownership and pride in resolving them, such as advising local residents on various parking issues.”

So, when you are confronted by some little pipsqueak whinging about your parking habits and you think ‘My, the police and their quasi-cousins the PCSOs are looking younger every day, this one looks about five years old!’, take another look.

They may actually be five years old!

“They will also advise their fellow pupils on problems within school and help work them out.”

Oh, really? What, pray tell, will the teachers be doing to earn their salary, then?

They are, of course, all for it:

Niki Woodbine, from Glebelands School, said: “The children are really excited to be part of the scheme.

She added: “We are hoping it will increase their sense of responsibility and show them they can make a difference.”

They won’t be able to read policing guidelines, write statements, or add up how many tickets they’ve issued, but hey, can any of the real police..?

I didn’t want to risk a ‘Godwin’, but that’s exactly what I thought, too.

Furor Teutonicus

June 21, 2012 at 2:12 pm

Ahhh. “Godwins law”. An excuse used by communists, or “Greens”, or anti-smokers, or anti fattists, or any other hippy grouping, to deflect, or “defeat” any reasoned argument/discussion away from the clear fact that there IS no difference between them and the nazis, when that reasoning comes dangerously close to proving the fact. And used by Nazis, who are loosing their argument, but can not be seen to be “throwing-in-the-towel.”

Tatty

June 21, 2012 at 2:17 pm

“I didn’t want to risk a ‘Godwin’, but that’s exactly what I thought, too.

Me too…but will it work ? Kids thrive on attention and popularity so when the other kids turn on them and their parents are getting ostracised or hassled by the neighbours how long do you think the initial gratitude for some attention from a select few adults is going to last ?

It’s starting small so kill it while it’s small. There’s no way in hell I’d allow my child to participate in such a scheme and didn’t even have to work very hard just recently to dissuade my daughter from becoming a “Young Leader” at school.

She’s a very intelligent girl but a lazy teen too so when it really came down to to it she just couldn’t be arsed with it.

Furor Teutonicus

June 21, 2012 at 2:10 pm

XX Niki Woodbine, from Glebelands School,XX

Is he allowed to be called that in a school these days? I mean, it COULD give the little bastards ideas about…. SMOKING(!!!!).

sovereigntea

June 23, 2012 at 5:06 pm

The Wednesbury PCSO scenario smacks of the Common Purpose / socialist activity to indoctrinate & politicise children and young people creating an intergenerational divide and provide a source of young willing quislings.

Also notable is that the Black Country ( same police authority ) was the scene of the Police checkpoint setup as SANDWELL police and partners kicked off Safer 6 with a Safer Travel operation at West Bromwich bus station. The operation which of course was for our own good involved abusing ( quizzing searching and interrogating ) travellers in the manner of the hated TSA in the USA. The BBC covered this and of course lorded it as a great idea much talk of community blah blah etc
The propaganda video of this can be found herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB7y1SloHyM&feature=player_detailpage

See Young Million / Youth Parliament and subversive groups such as Woocraft Folk whose promotional poster reads “we are the future” How reminiscent of Hitler Youth / Soviet youth pioneers
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As a schoolboy I was admonished by one of my jumped up peers a snitching child elevated to the position of prefect and for the sin of being late for school by 1.5min ( punctured bike tyre ) he said he would report me however he ended up in a prickly bush and was warned not to speak a word of it he remained silent.

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